The Dutchess of St. Alban's has made a very extraordinary
proviso in the bequest to her husband, the Duke, in her will. It appears that she had, for some considerable time previous to her decease, cherished an erroneous idea that certain of his Grace's nearest relations enter- tained a hostile feeling towards her : in consequence of this pre- possession, she has made a declaration that, should certain members of the Duke's family reside with him at any time for eight days in any one year, his interest in the annuity of 10,0001. should cease, and that it should become part of her residuary estate.
The Dutchess has left small legacies to the Reverend Lord F. Beauclerk, the Duke's uncle, and his family, but has not men. tioned any of her husband's brothers in her will. She is said to have been offended with one of them, Lord Frederick Beauclerk, for re- fusing to marry her heiress and favourite, Miss Angela Burdett.
There was a disturbance at the Italian Opera-house on Saturday night. In the middle of the performance of Anna Bolena, Ivanoff, who was playing Percy, refused to go on the stage till he had been paid in full for the season. After a protracted squabble, Laporte was corn- pelled to pay him. The singer and the manager have published con- tradictory stories in the newspapers. Laporte says that Ivanoff took an unfair advantage of him to obtain more favourable terms than other singers, and that he offered to deposit in the hands of a third person all that Ivanoff could claim. Ivanoff says that he took the only means in his power to enforce payment of a just debt, which ought to have been discharged previously ; that he had been cheated before, and was resolved not to be cheated again. The Queen was about to enter her box while the row in the theatre was going on, but she retired to an ante-room till it was over.
Henri Herz, the pianist, has been made one of the thousand and odd members of the Legion of Honour, by Louis Philip.
Reschid Bey is making a tour of the principal towns in the North of England, previous to his departure to enter on the duties of Minister for Foreign Affairs at Constantinople.
The name of Lady Lyndhurst's father is not Goldsmid, but Gold- smith. We should think the name of Lewis Goldsmith sufficiently notorious. He was not a stockbroker, but a notary. " Ile is not a Jew," says the Times. He is a Jew. He is a Hamburg Jew by nation ; and married a Jewess, who went to synagogue till her
death. His two daughters—Eliza and Georgiana ( Lady Lynd- hurst) are new converts to Protestantism. Alt. Lewis Goldsmith is an rittach6 of the Fureign Office. He first published is trucu- lent Republican work against kings and priests, entitled the Crimes of Cabinets ; next a libel on the Bonaparte family, and on all the Liberals in Europe, entitled Cabinet of Bonaparte; thirdly, a calumnious ultra Tory print called the Antiyallican, in which he abuses his present employers. Such is Lord Lyndhurst's
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